Brick

What this film is about?
This first scene within this film, it shows us a young man knelling down, with a close up of his eyes. Once you have seen him is then jumps to a different shot of the man still knelling down but looking at what looks like a dead body near a tunnel. After this it then shows us close up shots of him and the young ladies body. However, it does not show the audience much as we don't know if he killed the young girl or it was someone else, or if he knew her or not. Director: Rian Johnson, Writer: Rian Johnson, Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lukas Haas, Emilie de Ravin. This film is a  Crime, Drama, Mystery  and was made on the 12th of May 2006 (UK), this film also has a 7.5 start rating. 

Editing:

The first part of the scene is slow and it is blank and then moves into the setting that they are in, it lasts about 7-10 seconds, and then there is a dissolve that is used to then focus onto the young man eyes. This is very effective as it allows the audience to see that something is going on but they don't know what or why, or what this young man has to do with it. However, when the camera focuses on the young mans eyes it stays there for about 5-7 seconds this is so that the audience wonder what is going and what this boy has done. However, throughout this first scene the edits a very slow until it focuses on the girl when they start to speed up, however, they are still not extremely fast. When the camera shows the young lady laying on the floor, there are jump shots that are used back and forwards from the young boy and the young lady laying their on the floor, which looks like she is dead. This gives the effect that maybe the young man new the girl or maybe he had killed her, building up tension for the audience. However, when the camera jumps from one shot to the other you are able to see that it is getting closer and closer to the boys face and the young lady, making the audience wonder what is going to happen next and whether he actually killer her or not. At the end of this scene it does a close up on the young ladies bracelets, then does a straight shot to another arm with the same bracelets posting something in what looks like a school, building up suspicion for the audience and making them wonder what happened. 

Camera:

• Close up - Close up shots are used throughout this scene, the reason for this is because it builds up tension for the audience, not just this, but it allows the audience to see what is going on. 
• Wide shot - This was used when the camera allowed the audience to see everything that was going on, for example, the lay laying on the ground and the boy knelling down looking at her not to far away from her, the reason they used this was because then the audience are able to see what the man is looking at and where about's the man and lady are. 
• Long shot- This was also used at the same time as the wide shot, this was used to show what was going on and where about both the boy and girl where. 
• Extreme close up - this was mainly used on the girl and the boy, as they did and extreme close up on the boys eyes, and then on the girls hands, feet and face to show us where the boy was looking and what he was looking at, making this very effective for the audience, as it builds up tension. 
• Pan - This was used when the camera first focused and went to the boys feet to show the audience that he was knelling down. 
• Medium shot - Medium shots were also used to show where the boy was looking and to show the audience that he was looking at the young lady, not just this but to show us what the young man looked like. 
• High angle - This was mainly used when the camera was on the young lady laying on the floor the reason for this was because it allowed the audience to see that she was powerless and had no control, also almost like the boy was more in control as her and he was looking at her. 
• Lower angle - This was mainly used when looking at the young man as it shows the audience that he is powerfully and has power over this helpless girl, making the audience wonder what he has done and whether it was him that did this to the young girl. 

Sounds:

Throughout this scene there is the same music played the whole way through, the reason i believe that they have done this is the music is like bells and is very spooky and slow, so it builds up the tension for the audience and makes the wonder more what has happened. However, this music is non-diegetic as you are not able to see the source where it is coming from. However, although the sounds is non-diegetic i feel that it goes with what is happening as the music sounds like you are waiting for something and the boy is sitting there and sort of looks like he is waiting as he is just sat there looking at this young lady, who is laying on the floor. 

Mis en scene:

In this scene the audience are able to see that this young girl has been a victim of something, however, the only thing the audience does not know is who did it and why. Therefore, meaning that they don't know if the young man did it or it was someone else. This then build up suspicion for the audience, and it also builds up tension for the audience. On the other hand the props that where used for this scene where the young girls bracelets, the reason these where so effective because at the end of this scene they focus on the bracelets and then jump to another scene where someone is then wearing them, making the audience wonder if it is her, and if so was that before or after this accident. This then builds up more fear, tensions and suspicion.